in which Rex and Paul chew the fat on holiday cooking, Paul's specialties, Rex's love of mincemeat pie, biscuits and country ham, Paul's problems with rodents, eggnog, oyster loaf and Richard Allen, the old Des Arc fish market, fiddlers, the Emerson Purple-hull Pea Festival, Mississippi roast, Gillette and Slovak festivals coming up, how a heated throw changed Paul's life, memories of Bibles, the King James Version, sword drills, the OBU-Henderson State rivalry, the Church of Shakespeare, Newton County, what's going on in the hills of Arkansas, how Pocahontas used to be wet, and the need to get to Blytheville and eat some barbecue.